Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 2 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 3 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 4 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 6 | Ipswich were unfortunate to lose winger Jeremy English with fractured ribs , ruling him out for the remainder of the season . |
| 7 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 8 | Let it carry him along for a bit longer . |
| 9 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 10 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 11 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 12 | I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter . |
| 13 | Let him out for a roar round . |
| 14 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 15 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | Gary Stevens , whose non-appearance was announced on Monday , is to enter hospital tomorrow for an operation on his damaged left foot that will keep him out for the rest of the season . |
| 18 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 19 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 20 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 21 | Iain had invited him over for a meal . |
| 22 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 23 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 24 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 25 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 26 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 27 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 28 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 29 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 30 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |